November, 2005

Here There is No Moon - A college student leaps from a bridge, a young mother walks into a lake, a widow clings to a ledge. Impulse. Depression. Illness. Grief. Susan Stone's piece is a portrait of the suicidal mind from the perspective of those who have survived, and those who have helped in rescue and intervention.

June, 2005

The Mayor of Nichols - Gwen Macsai began this piece seeking out an old friend from Middle School. When she discovers he had been killed in 2000, supposedly homeless, by a Chicago policeman, the inevitable question arose... What happened?

May, 2005

I Wish - Part audio, part mail art. Samantha Broun's idea was to collaborate with people - through the mail - by asking them to record responses to the question, "What do you wish for?"

March, 2005

The Little Gray Book Lectures - It would be better if you could go to wherever The Little Gray Book Lecture is being held (usually Brooklyn), order a beer, and enjoy the show. But, since you can't, we turned it into radio and put it on the Internet.

February, 2005

Chasing Love - Our Transom Valentine's Day Feature by Miguel Macias. It is no mere confection. It's a long and intricate montage, that tricky form. Miguel pulls it off - scored with his own music, no less.

January, 2005

The Biography of 100,000 Square Feet - Benjamin Temchine's carefully-crafted portrait of place, his master's project at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

November, 2004

Family Sentence - "My dad spent 23 years in prison. He started off as a Cuban Revolutionary and later ended up a convicted felon in the United States. We only talked once in the last 16 years. Then, out of the blue I got an email from him. He wrote, 'I'm home. Your biological father, Hector.''"

October, 2004

Craziest - A Flash story about a highly obsessive Scrabble player. We think you'll get an excited feeling watching it, because you can feel the care and control of the makers working at the edge of something new.

September, 2004

Invisible Ink - A Radio Zine produced by Roman Mars for San Francisco's KALW. We're featuring a couple of shows from that series which stuck with us--one on gambling, one on love.

August, 2004

Seafood Joint, Garbage, & Stress Test - When we first received Hans' work, the editors didn't know what to make of it. Once they figured it out, they decided he was brilliant and "dangerously ambiguous."

June, 2004

	The Tomato & the Big Apple - This high-concept trip follows a tomato from Florida to New York... and, well, sort of back again.
	The Imaginary Village - Come listen to this sensitive story from Homelands Productions' World of Difference project about the difficult subject of Palestinian right of return.

May, 2004

The FAIR - Once the piece starts, you'll find it hard to close your eyes, but if you do, you'll hear a fine radio piece beneath those images. But, my-oh-my, the images and the way they work...

March, 2004

For the Blood is Life - Yes, it's about goat slaughtering, but it's also about god and home and generations to come.

The Day My Mother's Head Exploded - It covers the nature of consciousness and what matters in life, and does so with a strong hook and a light touch.

February, 2004

SALT Radio Program - The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies is dedicated to chronicling life around Maine, but it is also turning out talent. We share a few samples of that talent here.

January, 2004

	Of a Piece - How do you maintain family traditions, or build new ones, after a divorce? Would an 8,000-piece jigsaw puzzle help? Michelle Orange thinks so. In fact, she'd even go 12,500.
	Sweet Phil from Sugar Hill - A refugee from the Dot-Com bust makes her debut in long form radio. Full of clever production, it is the story of a large, difficult and remarkable personality, Phyllis Fletcher's father, and it's told with great care and no blame.